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by smashah 3y ago
It isn't about copyright laws. These megacorps send the MAINTAINERS THEMSELVES C&Ds based on their TOS - why? Because OSS devs do not have the means to pay for a potentially unlimited defense.
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by smashah 3y ago
The tech industry failed the invidious team and other projects like this. This should be 100% legal and allowed based on a right-to-mod precedent but not lawyer is willing to take it that far because this is open source. This project gives
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by smashah 3y ago
Right to repair should include right to mod (software) which also then necessitates right to reverse engineer
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by smashah 3y ago
This license was created to take the best parts from the Hippocratic and Do No Harm Licenses. In version 1.1 some prohibitions were added. Mainly settler colonialism and apartheid. Feel free to add it to your projects. https://fi
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H+DNH License 1.1(github.com)
1 points by smashah 3y ago|1 comments
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by smashah 3y ago
Absolutism includes the right to repair (our software) which extends to the right to reverse engineer. Unfortunately those are both untenable at the moment as there is no legal mechanism to support or fight for those rights To create such a
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by smashah 3y ago
Here is the context https://gist.github.com/smashah/667d4d5cf31670ee87547450861a...
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by smashah 3y ago
The big argument against piracy is that it doesn't allow people to get paid for their work, however, with these recent Hollywood strikes and how people are getting paid $0.08 residuals I don't see how piracy makes anyone any worse
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by smashah 3y ago
....and they send legal threats and harassment to 15 year old OSS project maintainers.
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by smashah 3y ago
I strongly believe users should be able to automate and interact with their accounts through whatever clients they wish however I think blocks/bans/technical countermeasures is fair game. Count yourself lucky for not having an und
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by smashah 3y ago
I'm aware of DMAs regs but it forces Whatsapp within 6 months to start enabling interoperability. However it doesn't provide protection for these existing bridge projects. open-wa, Baileys, invidious devs are all in the dark as to
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by smashah 3y ago
Matrix is great but when is the tech industry going to deal with the fact that many, if not all, bridges are against the respective services' ToS and subsequently put the developers of those bridges under legal risk? Whatsapp has alrea
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by smashah 3y ago
Wouldn't it be more "efficient" networking if I could sometimes just use the mullvad app instead of tailscale > mullvad? Either way it would be good to at least have the option to use an existing account. Maybe tailscale i
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by smashah 3y ago
The developers shouldn't have to be anon for this type of amazing project. They should be publicly celebrated instead of having to hide for fear of being buried in legal trouble. Sad state of the world.
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by smashah 3y ago
great demo video
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by smashah 3y ago
This is why regulation is required to force companies to release feature-parity APIs and protect reverse engineering projects from legal threats.
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by smashah 3y ago
Oh but that would be against the respective projects' code of conduct. /s
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by smashah 3y ago
We should also be mad about Meta (a now $800bn company) sending C&D legal threats and bullying OSS devs into no longer being able to maintain their projects
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Show HN: cve.earth needs your help to track corporate environmental destruction(github.com)
7 points by smashah 3y ago|0 comments
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by smashah 3y ago
Side point: When you rent a Tesla, please do not sign into youtube. Subsequent renters can see your whole Google account (including family members, phone numbers etc). Or at least sign out before you return the car!
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by smashah 3y ago
Ok so lets track - Twitter kneecapping 3PAs with it's API changes - Reddit doing the same - Meta sending Cease & Desists to Whatsapp API alt OSS devs - Youtube sending legal threats to Invidious OSS devs Last two succeed because (s
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by smashah 3y ago
Cool now Meta please sending Cease & Desist threats to 15 year old OSS devs thanks
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by smashah 3y ago
Based on your last line, I am not surprised that you are surprised. Users are the reason why Reddit has any value. They are the ones generating and reading the content. Let's see how this strategy plays out. day -1, total API requests
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by smashah 3y ago
Probably wont happen unless people start threatening to cancel their wired/etc. subscriptions
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by smashah 3y ago
This is the result of shamelessness seeping into business. That contrarian business thinking that does away with any pretense of putting anything other than money first. Also, this idea of charging for API access is lazy and unimaginative.
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Ask HN: Who's staying on Google Domains post acquisition?
2 points by smashah 3y ago|1 comments
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by smashah 3y ago
The big distinction made by TheFrenchGhosty is that they did not personally agree to the Youtube API T&Cs. If Youtube were as cunning as the goobers at the Whatsapp ToS fanfic department then they would add those terms to their Youtube
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by smashah 3y ago
I literally dont understand why they did this. Their product was fine as is so didn't need more features, maintenance burden minimal. Isn't google domains just a UI for their GCP domains product? Will that get shut down? Will all
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by smashah 3y ago
Some digital services need to be the-internet-equivalent-of nationalized.
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by smashah 3y ago
ok, he's wrong for that - still shouldn't be punished for piracy.

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